AFTER 12 months of planning and planting, and with the help of good friends Carole and Lance Lewis, Maleny’s Lisa Plucknett was recently able to ‘declare open’ the Kevin Plucknett Memorial Garden at Maleny Hospital. Lisa thanked family and Kevin’s close friends for their support and in particular the hospital’s Dr Kris McQuaid for his care and kindness to Kevin in 2022. The garden consists of two large flower filled pots, a shade tree, and a garden bench. The eventual plaque for the bench will have the usual inscription, plus the words: “On Kevin’s seat, ’Neath Kevin’s tree, May you find … Tranquility.” It will also carry a carved replica of the bovine shingle that hung at the entrance to Kevin’s dairy farm. Kevin, a dairy farmer for his first 53 years, and then chief gardener at Erowal Retirement Village, was an iconic figure in the dairying world.